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...Harmon, Michigan's triple all-American representative, led the Wolverine contingent, garnering a perfect total of 20 votes at the left-halfback post, while Forrest Evashevski, his teammate and blocking back who paves the way for many of Harmon's spectacular runs by devastating interference, was not far behind, polling just one short of a unanimous vote...
...upsets in the State's political history. For years Lawrence McDaniel, a roly-poly, wisecracking, dependable Democratic wheelhorse, has missed big victories by a hair. Once he was almost mayor of St. Louis. This year he resigned as City Excise Commissioner to run for Governor. Opposing him was Forrest Donnell, an unassuming Republican attorney who had never held public office before. Confident Candidate McDaniel tasted victory prematurely. As Missouri's Democratic victory came through on schedule, jubilant Candidate McDaniel had a lead of 50,000 on Tuesday night, with 75% of the vote reported. Down it went...
...purl in my sleep for Bundles for Britain, after wrapping bandages until my arms were sore, I sat down to read your magazine of Sept. 2 and what should I come across but an article on the Duchess of Windsor, whom I had admired. She sent for Wayne Forrest, a famous hairdresser, to come to Nassau to do her hair. For this trip he had to fly and bring a permanent-wave dryer, packets of nail polish, rouge, powder, lipstick. All this would cost a large sum of money...
Died. Leon Forrest Douglass, 71, millionaire inventor and co-founder of the Victor Talking Machine Company; after a long illness; in San Francisco. Once said to have "done more to abolish peace and quiet than anyone else now living," Douglass gave Edison's phonograph a spring motor, brought its inventor his first cash reward. Once he had his daughter fight an octopus to publicize his underwater camera. Other Douglass inventions: a magnetic torpedo for World War I, the first pay telephone, a device for double reproduction of sound in radio...
...Manhattan, the swank hairdressing salon of Antoine de Paris stood on end when a cable came from the Duchess of Windsor asking that Manhattan Hairdresser Wayne Forrest be sent at once to Nassau to do her hair for an important reception. To Nassau, where the Duchess and her Governor-Husband obligingly held hands for photographers, the hairdresser flew on 24 hours' notice, with a permanent wave dryer, packets of nail polish, rouge, powder, lipstick...